A Get-Together for Deaf and Dumb Robots in Three dimensional Space
Subhash Bhagat, Sruti Gan Chaudhuri, Krishnendu Mukhopadhyaya

TL;DR
This paper presents a strategy for a group of deaf and dumb robots in 3D space to independently meet at a common location without prior coordination, global positioning, or shared orientation, despite challenges like forgetfulness and possible robot failures.
Contribution
It introduces a novel decentralized approach enabling autonomous robots with limited sensing and no shared coordinate system to rendezvous in three-dimensional space.
Findings
Robots can successfully meet at a common location despite no shared orientation.
The strategy works even with robot failures and forgetfulness.
Robots do not require global positioning or consistent compass directions.
Abstract
This paper proposes a strategy for a group of deaf and dumb robots, carrying clocks from different countries, to meet at a geographical location which is not fixed in advanced. The robots act independently. They can observe others, compute some locations and walk towards those locations. They can only get a snapshot of the locations of other robots but can not detect whether they are static or in motion. The robots are forgetful; once they have completed their motion they forget their previous locations and observations. Again they decide new destinations to move to. Eventually all the robots compute the same destination and meet there. There exists no global positioning system. As they stand, they agree on up and down directions. However, as they do not have any compass, the other directions are not agreed upon. They also do not agree on the clockwise direction. For determining a…
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Taxonomy
TopicsOptimization and Search Problems · Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence · Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization
